Us now live from Childrens National Medical Center where the boy is treated tonight. Reporter when that boy arrived here late tuesday night in grave condition, the result police say of a brutal beating received at the hand of his mothers boyfriend, all of it over a piece of cake. With his mother at work on tuesday, the boy was left at this apartment in the care of his uncle and his mothers boyfriend robert leroy wilson. According to court documents, when wilson caught the boy stealing cake, he cuffed his hands and beat the defenseless child until he was unresponsive and stiff. The boys uncle took the cuffs off and called 911. To have a 9yearold in the condition hes in now because an adult literally beat him into that condition is traumatic. Its marched on all of us to hard on all of us to deal with those things. Reporter a neighbor said nothing about wilson stood out when they chatted about motorcycles in the parking lot. Seemed like a normal everyday guy, didnt seem like the person th
Drenching rains and the terrorism alert. Were live at the National Monument where Security Leaders are breathing a sigh of relief, and im you are too bruce. Reporter yes, a lone wolf attack, isis inspired assault by an individual was among the top fears of security official, but thankfully the only explosions down here tonight were the fireworks. A Late Afternoon downpour forced thousands to seek shelter. But by the time the first blast of red, white, and blue hit the sky over the lincoln memorial, the rain had cleared and the crowd was overjoyed. Its beautiful its amazing. Really awesome the fireworks are beautiful. Reporter 700,000 people usually crowd americas front yard to celebrate the fourth, but metro numbers suggest far fewer came this year, scared away perhaps by the terror alert issued last week by homeland security. And by the weather. Special patrols watched the monuments, Surveillance Aircraft patrolled the sparkling skies. No one we talked to seemed worry. I didnt even kn
Weather center, how bad is it now . The storms will have heavy downpours and maybe some flash flooding, no hail or winds, so thats the Silver Lining, but this is the last hour, south to almost due north through the district, this is the heaviest one, and one just leaving the northwest part of town. Zoom in a little more, and you can see this storm is heavy around bethesda, and out 97. Zoom in a little more, rain fall rate on this was about an inch per hour, now its moving north, so its going to slow you down a little going home. Little further north, this is pretty heavy too. Earlier the heaviest rain shifted east and new york city, but at one north, but at one time rates at an inch and a third per hour. More storms out to the west, this will eventually head north into claysville about 5 05, and big storms near brunswick. When we come back well tell you when the storms die out, and the possibility of another yellow alert later this week. And frightening moments at a Medical Center afte
Up 28 toward sterling and reston, its held together very well. Still no lightning, but we see heavy rain fall with the storm, to flash flooding is possible, and just trying to get home tonight, even cook out will be a problem early on. By 9 30 most everything is gone. Couple of left over light showers indicated in green. When we return well talk about a cold front for wednesday, not just heavy storm, but perhaps severe storms. Thanks, now back to the story you saw live over the course of more than three hours this morning. A lock down at alter reed brought on walter reed brought in by reports of a gunshot. First we have a closer look at exactly what happened today, thats tonights top story, andrea is live outside the Medical Center. Reporter after three and a half tense hours, employees were finally given the all career, thankfully there was no shooter, and there were no injuries. 10 40 a. M. , employees across the sprawling walter reed campus received a code white alert, and are told
I think well see flooding for the next several hours where were seeing flooding now. Never try to cross a flooded street by car or by foot. Computer chaos. First United Airlines and then the new york Stock Exchange. Computer glitches took down the wall street journal too. Causing hassles and heartaches. Lets go straight to debra alfaron where shes standing by with the story. Debra. Reporter to be clear trading on the floor of the Stock Exchange was halted. You could still trade electronically. Thats where 75 of the trades get done these days. If youre shaking your head with all these coincidences you would not be alone. Heres how it went down. A few hours of this this. This new york Stock Exchange shut down trading on the floor at 11 32. It remained down for 4 hours. The exchange blame ed d this on internal technical issues. This is so newsworthy the white house chimed in. Theres no indicator that it was malicious. There was no coordinated cyber attack. While a 4hour outage seems like